>>> "Varun Mittal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/02/07 7:55 AM >>> >hello everybody, >how can I connect two computers so that they function as one with increased >processing power >something of kind of parallel processing. > >varun mittal
If you would like to share the kernel - create a single image or shared memory system - then OpenMosix is the best way out. http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ Dyne:bolic has this implemented as a live CD - though it is supposedly geared for graphics and audio-video processing http://dynebolic.org/ However, the more common way is get super-computing power is to cluster machines - and applications run across the cluster using message passing - either MPI or PVM - typically called a "Beowulf" cluster. More info from the links below: http://beowulf.org/overview/faq.html Two popular OS/middleware are Oscar and ROCKS http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/ http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/ There is also the concept of high-throughput computing - made popular by the SETI project and some academic stuff like [EMAIL PROTECTED] The application that can convert your LAN to a high-throughput system - with advanced features like check-pointing, etc. is the CONDOR project http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ Andrew P.S. I will be setting up a Condor grid on heterogenous hardware for an experiment that will run through next week. If this excites your voyouristic tendencies, you are welcome to join us at JNU. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
